Maude Adams—actress
Birth
Maude Ewing Adams Kiskadden was born 1 November 1872 in Salt Lake City.
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Maude Adams' (born November 11, 1872; died July 17, 1953) was an American stage actress, most noted for her signature role, Peter Pan.
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Education
Maude Adams and Polly Brandon, each aged about eleven, played the parts of old crones. From the time she played the child's part in "Fritz" at four years of age Maudie Adams was never satisfied unless she was traveling and playing with her mother. Again and again Mrs. Adams sent her daughter back to the old home and to her grandmother in Salt Lake City, but there came from school and from home the report: "Maudie is good and learns fast, but she frets so much for you and the life of the stage that we are afraid she may be ill." Again and again, especially after the death of Mr. Kiskadden, Mrs. Adams reluctantly consented to her little daughter's "taking one more engagement, but this must really be the last before she is graduated."
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Fame
One of the most prominent was Broadway actress Maude Adams, famous for her portrayal of Peter Pan during the Victorian era.
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Work
Maude Adams appeared in her last major role in 1918 as a starving waif who took care of some war orphans in James M. Barrie's "A Kiss for Cinderella."
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Maude Adams made her adult debut at the Star Theatre in New York City, where she was discovered by E. H. Sothern and cast as Jessie Deane in Lord Chumley.
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Containing references to Maude Adams and to Barrie's Peter Pan and The dramatists get what they want.
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That first year, Maude Adams flew across the stage as Peter Pan and Wells presented Ben-Hur complete with teams of horses on treadmills.
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And the mother of Maude Adams, who was acting in a stock company in Salt Lake City, was right on hand at an important moment.
http://www.ldsfilm.com/actors/MaudeAdams.html
Maude Adams was one of the greatest stage actresses of her era. She was best known for her portrayal of Peter Pan. That role was written especially for her, and she actually performed it 1,500 times. Mark Twain once said of her role as Peter Pan that it was a ?uplifting benefaction to a sordid and money mad age.? Brooks Atkinson went on to say that ?all her most enchanting and most memorable qualities came into focus with Peter Pan.? However, at the height of her powers she retired from the theater having lost her manager, grandmother and mother all in a very short period of time. She worked for a time for GE developing special lights for color movies although never claiming patents for her creations.
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Adams, Maude, an American actress (real name Kiskadden), was born Nov. 11, 1872, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her mother was the leading woman in a stock company and while going to school Miss Adams often appeared on the stage in child's parts. At sixteen she joined E. H. Sothern's Company in New York in the "Midnight Bell." She has been connected with Charles Frohman's stock company and has supported John Drew. Her most pronounced success has been in J. M. Barrie's plays, and especially in "The Little Minister." During the winter of 1906–07 she made a great success in New York in the play "Peter Pan."
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